When the fifth-generation X5 (G65) debuts subsequent yr, it’ll provide quite a lot of powertrains. Nevertheless, not all of them might be out there at launch. BMW will get the ball rolling with the gasoline 40 xDrive and diesel 40d xDrive. Later within the yr, the lineup is prone to increase with the 50e xDrive plug-in hybrid. Across the identical time, BMW ought to introduce an M Efficiency M60e plug-in hybrid and a totally electrical 60 xDrive.
Past gasoline, diesel, plug-in hybrid, and battery-electric variations, the vary will ultimately embrace a gas cell variant. Confirmed for a 2028 launch, will probably be BMW’s first-ever hydrogen manufacturing automobile. It’s already been previewed with a camouflaged prototype sporting the generic “iX5 Hydrogen” label.
We’re now listening to that BMW has chosen “iX5 60H xDrive” because the automobile’s official identify. Not that there was any doubt, however the designation confirms normal all-wheel drive. The “60” badge suggests will probably be one of many extra highly effective variants within the lineup, positioned beneath a rumored iX5 M70 xDrive and a potential X5 M (G95).
The iX5 Hydrogen is being developed in collaboration with Toyota for a third-generation gas cell system. It’s logical to anticipate the electrical motors to be BMW’s Gen6 {hardware}, which debuted final month on the iX3. As an alternative of a giant and heavy battery pack, hydrogen tanks will feed the gas cell to generate electrical energy.
It’s nonetheless early for detailed specs, however the iX5 prototypes based mostly on the outgoing X5 characteristic twin CFRP tanks that retailer about 6 kilograms of hydrogen, good for a WLTP vary of 313 miles (504 kilometers). The upcoming iX5 60H xDrive ought to provide a considerably increased vary when it arrives in about three years.
Ultimately, there may even be a sixth powertrain possibility for the X5. Stories recommend BMW is exploring the thought of reviving the vary extender. If it materializes, a small gasoline engine appearing as a generator to cost the battery may additionally seem within the next-generation X7 (“G67”). Nevertheless, none of that is official till BMW confirms it.
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